The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-12-15
STILL ANOTHER REPLY


EDITOR ADVANCE: II have read
"Non-Producer's" article Iii your pa
per of Nov. "a. and although belong
to the Alliance, am one OF the pro-
ducers.
In the first place, it is very evident
that the Farmers Alliance is being
felt just now, hence this buster and
bravado. We farmers do not tameIy
submit to advice when backed by
brains of such small calibre.
And wherein are non-produccrs bet
ter calculated to do our business for
us than we are? lie says that combi-
nation among farmers is all imi ossi.
bility: l suppose l might cite the
Green Drive Well combination as one
instance where farmers haye shown
what they con!l do when they COM
! bine, and that will be sufficient for
! this time..
Passing by all the silly twaddle of
closing favor" and superior ability, -
as not worth notice, l would like to
ask 'NOn-Producer," when he quotes
history 50 glibly, (in his own imagra.
tlon) where almost AL of onr greatest
and best men sprung from? Foreign
history is all very well, but is it not
better to read aud remember the his
;ory Of ones own country?
We admit that no..-producers have
generally ''stfi;ed in and guided the
proceeds Into lneir own Ecpper," and
neighbor told u.s. that one of th.st
same non-producers ''guided" several
bushels of fax into his ''hopper," ausi
failed to pay for it, and took a,4 outra
geous per cent. for dirt, simply be.
cause u wOihan trusted TO his honesty
and did not WATCH him. Niat kind OF
business ability We farmers do not, as
Il general thing, possess. Taking pay
for doing our business for us is all very
well, while We aliowit, bat taking our
grain and giving lis nothing is u very
different thing. This is one of the rea.
sons why we propose to do our own
business. and it is high time the far
mers unite AS one man and put down
forever those arrogant combinations.
And lie asks Il grave and Weighty
QUESTION: "Would you hitc;, the OK TO
the carriage?' Farmers, ponder the
question well. Would you? II you
cannot grasp the question ut once in
all its entirety, take time. He did not
command you to answer at once, you
know. and perhaps he would be merci.
tul to you, seeing how brainless you
are. For one, can answer, no, in
deed, we would not. but hitch up
mon Producer" instead, as he thinks
himself such a thoroughbred, and we
propose to ride in that carriage our.
selves, simply to let ''Non-Producer''
feel the educating influence of the
lash which he thinks he is "calculated |
by nature and education" to apply to
us. |
The majority of the farmers are very
we'll Informed, but they have ever
been too easy going and culpably neg
ligent in regard to these combinations.
Farmers, are you oxen? or What are
you? Will you always submit to these
Will you always re.
main inert?. Let every farmer rouse
at once and join this Farmers Alliance
80 that these same men who deem you
no better than oxen. shall cringe be.
Meath your lash. They have "let you
play at management long enough, "but
low they order you to stop, and
threaten you it you do not. But
should remember
hat this is not Russia. although if we
'armers remain idle, our children NAV
zee the day that they are scarcely bet
er off than the serfs of that despotic
r
Again l call upon every farmer to
'nite, and to 'NOn-Producer, would
ay. as Napoleon FIRST said of France.
(ou have more need of us than we of
'ou. This is mentioned as proof that
We understand our position merely s" I
ONE OF THE PRODUCERS.